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[Color image of several people sitting in front of a small domed structure that is surrounded by trees.]

A MARABOUT BENEATH THE AGE-OLD OLIVE TREES AT BLIDA

The term "marabout" is applied to a Mohammedan holy man or saint and is also used to denote
the tomb in which he is buried. These tombs are regarded as endowed with the holy man's sacred
character and as such are hallowed places. Blida is a sizable city near Algiers.

[Color image of two women and a child sitting on and around a stone with a thatched structure in the background.]
©National Geographic Society
Autochroms by Gervais Courtellemont

WHERE RICH MAN AND BEGGAR LIVE ALIKE

Among the Kabyles there are few fine houses, even the well-to-do living in primitive fashion.
These Berbers have peculiar ideas of property, a man sometimes owning a fig tree but not the land
on which it is grown and perhaps not even all of its branches.

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